Correlates of longitudinal leukocyte telomere length in the Costa Rican Longevity Study of Healthy Aging (CRELES): On the importance of DNA collection and storage procedures

• Luis Rosero-Bixby ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Lrosero@mac.com

  Affiliation Centro Centroamericano de Población, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3063-3111

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• David H. Rehkopf,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

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• William H. Dow,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

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• Jue Lin,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Elissa S. Epel,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Jorge Azofeifa,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica

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• Alejandro Leal

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica

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